The Cold War: The Games were moved to Arnhem, Holland in
1980 after the Soviet Union, which was hosting the Olympics in Moscow, and which might not have performed all that well in the Paralympics, refused to stage them. It was a difficult time for
the Olympic movement in general, with the US and the Soviet Union boycotting each others' games and vying for supremacy, both in the Olympics and very much elsewhere. Dr Guttman also died that year, but the ensuing decade was a successful one, in which the International Paralympic Committee was formally established.
